Bryon and Mark are bestfriends and the main characters. Mark is someone who is consider as an active person whose parents died in a drunk gun battle. Bryon is like a brother to mark because his familly took in Mark after his parents died. Bryon is the opposite of Mark because he wants to become older and be done with all the things Mark wants to do.
2. Who are the two young people Bryon meets at the hospital?
Bryon meets Cathy M&M's sister at the snack bar in the hospital were his mom works. Cathy asks Bryon if they want to talk later. Also he meets a kid named Mike Chambers. He was in the hospital because he got beat up in a gang fight.
3. What is the relationship Bryon has with Charlie?
Bryon and Charlie's relationship is good friend. That is because Charlie is Bryon's ex-girlfriends brother. This is because Charlie lets Bryon go to his bar and play pool and get off easy with his unpayed coke charges.
4. What happens at the dance?
Mark and his friend Curtis got into a fight in the parking lot of the school with a guy who the never even seen before. Curtis and the stranger started throwing fists and Mark tried to break it up but he got hit on the side of the head with a broken beer bottle.
5. What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversation with Mark?
Bryon discovers that Mark doesn't belive that Bryon and his mom are like actual family to him. Also Bryon learns that Mark's real dad was a cowboy.
6. What happend to Charlie? How did Bryon and Mark feel about it?
Charlie got shot by a gang member outside of his bar on top of his left eye. Bryon and Mark felt very sad and depressed about the whole thing. They felt this because it was there fault he got shot in the first place with all the pool hustling they did.
7. What do Mark and Cathy think of each other?
They both dislike each other because they both want to spent time with Bryon alone.
8. What does Mark do to Angel? Why?
Mark cuts of Angel's hair because he was getting revenge for almost trying to kill him and Curtis at the dance.
9. In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark?
Bryon begins to discover that his good friend Mark is scared of them growing apart and Bryon not being there to help in hard times.
10. What happens to Bryon at Terry Jones' house? How does his attitude change?
Bryon got beat up by the Shepard's at Terry Jones' house. His attitude changed by he didn't want Mark to go out and fight them but to just stay there with him.
11. In chapter nine what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon?
M&M had a bad reaction to LSD which made him lose his mind and made him almost jump out a window. This moves Bryon because he is helping out and he doesn't want to see M&M die.
12. What shoking discovery does Bryon mane in Mark's bedroom(chapter 10)? What does he do?
The shocking discovery that Bryon make is a carton of drugs which Mark sells to make money. Bryon shows him the carton and makes Mark explain why he had the cartonof drugs.
13. How does Bryon's relationship change with his friend and his attitude toward life completely change?
It changes by him sending is best friend to jail for the drugs Bryon found under Mark's pillow. Now he thinks that all the fun stuff he used to do was bad.
14. How does Bryon feel at the end of the book?
Bryon feels like he can do anything. Also he wishes to become a kid again a year after Mark got locked up.
15. What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach?
I thought this book taught good life lesson to know as I get older, This book teaches me not to get hooked into all the bad things in our world like drugs, violence, and gangs.
That was Then This is Now
1. Who are bryon and Mark?
Bryon and Mark are bestfriends and the main characters. Mark is someone who is consider as an active person whose parents died in a drunk gun battle. Bryon is like a brother to mark because his familly took in Mark after his parents died. Bryon is the opposite of Mark because he wants to become older and be done with all the things Mark wants to do.
2. Who are the two young people Bryon meets at the hospital?
Bryon meets Cathy M&M's sister at the snack bar in the hospital were his mom works. Cathy asks Bryon if they want to talk later. Also he meets a kid named Mike Chambers. He was in the hospital because he got beat up in a gang fight.
3. What is the relationship Bryon has with Charlie?
Bryon and Charlie's relationship is good friend. That is because Charlie is Bryon's ex-girlfriends brother. This is because Charlie lets Bryon go to his bar and play pool and get off easy with his unpayed coke charges.
4. What happens at the dance?
Mark and his friend Curtis got into a fight in the parking lot of the school with a guy who the never even seen before. Curtis and the stranger started throwing fists and Mark tried to break it up but he got hit on the side of the head with a broken beer bottle.
5. What does Bryon begin to discover in his private conversation with Mark?
Bryon discovers that Mark doesn't belive that Bryon and his mom are like actual family to him. Also Bryon learns that Mark's real dad was a cowboy.
6. What happend to Charlie? How did Bryon and Mark feel about it?
Charlie got shot by a gang member outside of his bar on top of his left eye. Bryon and Mark felt very sad and depressed about the whole thing. They felt this because it was there fault he got shot in the first place with all the pool hustling they did.
7. What do Mark and Cathy think of each other?
They both dislike each other because they both want to spent time with Bryon alone.
8. What does Mark do to Angel? Why?
Mark cuts of Angel's hair because he was getting revenge for almost trying to kill him and Curtis at the dance.
9. In chapter seven, what does Bryon begin to discover about his good friend Mark?
Bryon begins to discover that his good friend Mark is scared of them growing apart and Bryon not being there to help in hard times.
10. What happens to Bryon at Terry Jones' house? How does his attitude change?
Bryon got beat up by the Shepard's at Terry Jones' house. His attitude changed by he didn't want Mark to go out and fight them but to just stay there with him.
11. In chapter nine what happens to M&M? Why does this move Bryon?
M&M had a bad reaction to LSD which made him lose his mind and made him almost jump out a window. This moves Bryon because he is helping out and he doesn't want to see M&M die.
12. What shoking discovery does Bryon mane in Mark's bedroom(chapter 10)? What does he do?
The shocking discovery that Bryon make is a carton of drugs which Mark sells to make money. Bryon shows him the carton and makes Mark explain why he had the cartonof drugs.
13. How does Bryon's relationship change with his friend and his attitude toward life completely change?
It changes by him sending is best friend to jail for the drugs Bryon found under Mark's pillow. Now he thinks that all the fun stuff he used to do was bad.
14. How does Bryon feel at the end of the book?
Bryon feels like he can do anything. Also he wishes to become a kid again a year after Mark got locked up.
15. What do you think about this book and what life message does it teach?
I thought this book taught good life lesson to know as I get older, This book teaches me not to get hooked into all the bad things in our world like drugs, violence, and gangs.